Movie talk 60

I hope I can finish all these plus a lot of more of previous due by the end of February!

Late Spring (Ozu)
The circle
Padre Padrone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
Children of heaven (Majid)
Heimat, a chronicle of Germany (Disk 1-3)
The wind will carry us (Abbas) 8
My mother's smile (Marco Bellocchio)
Babette's feast (Gabriel Axel)
Mishima, a life in four chapters (Paul Schrader)
Perfume, the story of a murderer (Tom Tykwer) This movie is unbearably bad, I can't finish.
Army of shadows (Jean Pierre Melville) 8
In the mood for love (revisit) (Wang Jiawei) 8 Masterpiece is masterpiece.
French lieutenant's woman (Karel Reitz) 6 Doesn't struck me as much as before.
Quest for fire
Manufactured landscapes
Indochine 7 The second half is better than first half
Subway 8 Seriously? it's better than Leon!
Heaven (Tom Tykwer) 7
In the realm of senses 7
War witch 7
Amarcord
Ballad of a soldier
Red circle
Ossessione (Lucino Visconti) 7
Fame
Autumn afternoon
Seppuku
Dersu Uzala 7 (Kurosawa)

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All that heaven allows (Douglas Sirk) 8
Hugo (Scorsese)  6
Scrarecrow (revisit)
Network (revisit) 7
The Vanishing (1988? first version) 7
Brief encounter (revisit) 7
The wind that shakes the barley (revisit)
Sunday bloody Sunday 8 (surprised! and impressed)
25 Firemans Street 6
Mephisto 8
Merry christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima) 6
The turin horse (7)
L'Atalante 8 WOW it is made in 1930!
The searchers (John Ford) 3 - I give it 3 points only because it was shot in monument valley. Otherwise 0 point.
Thin red line (revisit) 6 - doesn't strike me as before
Elepant (gus van cant) (revisit) 8 (still a masterpiece)
Paths of glory (Kubrick) 8
Empire of passion (Nagisa Oshima) 8 so far it's his best work

Movie talk 58

The Denver library "request it" system got 30% of the 60 DVDs George and I requested. The other 70% was cancelled.

We got the following:
The return (Andrey Zvyagintsev ) 7
Man of Iron (Andzjei Wajda) 8
First name: Carmen
Minnie and Moskowitz 7 (one of casavettes's weaker movies)
The Marquise of O
Electra, my love
Little fugitive (7)
The stolen children
Gloria (John Casavettes) 7
The knack and how to get it
Johnny got his gun 7
Faraway, so close!
Fantastic planet 7
Ashes and Diamonds 8 Masterpiece!
Vagabond (Agnès Varda) 7
A world apart
Three complete classic of the soviet avant-garde (earth, chess fever, the end of St. peterburg)
The red and the white 7 (an interesting movie)
Artists under the big top: perplexed (another title: The artist in the circus dome: confused)
Wanda 7
Urga
Red Psalm (DVD not working)
Dust in the wind (lian lian feng chen) (Hou Xiao Xian) (in a VHS tape!) Couldn't play in correct aspect ratio.
Rosetta (Dardenne brothers) 8
Greed in the sun (finally the library bought it since there are other requests)

(They also sent Sergei Parajanov's The shadow of our ancestors and Wim Wenders's The state of things" in VHS format)